How to buy happiness如何获取幸福.docx

So I want to talk today about money and happiness, which are two things that a lot of us spend a lot of our time thinking about, either trying to earn them or trying to increase them. And a lot of us resonate with this phrase. So we see it in religions and self-help books, that money cant buy happiness. And I want to suggest today that, in fact, thats wrong. (Laughter) Im at a business school, so thats what we do. So thats wrong, and, in fact, if you think that, youre actually just not spending it right. So that instead of spending it the way you usually spend it, maybe if you spent it differently, that might work a little bit better. And before I tell you the ways that you can spend it that will make you happier, lets think about the ways we usually spend it that dont, in fact, make us happier. We had a little natural experiment. So CNN, a little while ago, wrote this interesting article on what happens to people when they win the lottery. It turns out people think when they win the lottery their lives are going to be amazing. This articles about how their lives get ruined. So what happens when people win the lottery is, number one, they spend all the money and go into debt, and number two, all of their friends and everyone theyve ever met find them and bug them for money. And it ruins their social relationships, in fact. So they have more debt and worse friendships than they had before they won the lottery. What was interesting about the article was people started commenting on the article, readers of the thing. And instead of talking about how it had made them realize that money doesnt lead to happiness, everyone instantly started saying, You know what I would do if I won the lottery ... ? and fantasizing about what theyd do. And heres just two of the ones we saw that are just really interesting to think about. One person wrote in, When I win, Im going to buy my own little mountain and have a little house on top. (Laughter) And another person wrote, I would fill